Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 1

VOLUME 13, NO. 21. — EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1915. T OWATONNASTATE ° SCHOOL CHARGES ARE MAKING GOOD Since Establishment in 1886 Institu- tion Has Provided Care and Train- ing For 5,000 Neglected Children 4,000 GIVEN GOOD POSITIONS Records Show That Nearly Every Boy Or Girl Is Doing Well—Try Many Different Trades. From street waif to banker, from homes of neglect and poverty to po- sitions of trust¢ and honor, may seem a far cry, yet the records of.the State Public School for dependent and neglected children at Owatonna are replete with such instances. How better than eighty per cent of the product of this school, which is a semi-board of control charge, “make good” is one of the most interesting and gratifying features of institu- tion life in Minnesota. Established in 1886 Established in 1886, the Owatonna school during its twenty-eight years of existence has provided care and training for over 5,000 children, and during the same period has secured comfortable homes and positions for approximately 4,000. Of the latter figure the school management " through its agents and correspond- ence has kept a detail record of each case, and the story these individual records tell is remarkable. Every Detail Correct. These records cover every deatil of the State’s guardianship and even follow the dependent out into the world where he has been sent to earn his own livelihood and work out his own future. For the purposes of tabulation those wards of the state, fulfilling every requirement of good citizenship and character, are desig- nated as “doing well,” those who have been less successful as “doing fairly well,” and those regarded as undesirables in the community in which they live as ‘“‘doing poorly.” The individual records kept, which have been classified, include 2,407 boys and 1,593 gijrls. As their school training includes considerable in the way of farm work the trend of a ma- jority of those sent out has been the rural communities, and with few ex- ceptions they have done well. Of over 1,000 boys so placed only six per cent are designated as doing poor- ly. In the case of the girls the fail- ures are even less, 4 per cent being the figure. While the farms of the state have claimed a large percentage of those leaving the school since its establish- ment, hundreds have found their way into other lines of endeavor and up- lift, and the list as compiled, together with the percentage of success and failures makes interesting reading. Practically every profession {s repre- sented. Showing the prominence of some of the lines of endeavor as taken np by the boys after leaving the school and which followed this period of training in some foster home, eight merchants are recorded, four actors, | four army officers, two electrical en- gineers, two real estate agents, two insurance agents, two express agents, one college instruction, one state bank examiner, one lawyer, one publisher, one bank cashier, one na- val officer, one member of the Ca- tholic brotherhood and one logging contractor. In the entire list not a failure is shown. 16 Are Teachers. Under the head of teachers no less than sixteen are listed and every one of them has made good. The navy claimed sixteen boys, and the army ten, and of the two only eight are listed as failures. The Canadian mounted police has one of the Owatonna school boys on its rolls and he would not be there if he had not made good. As to the other trades and professions prac- tically all are represented and in each case the showing is good. Of the girls sent out into the world the majority of them are married and the individual record of each is to the credit of the state. Those who have become farmers’ wives number 169, and 87 per cent of them are marked as doing well. Fifty married day laborers and here the showing is not so good. Only 20 per cent of this class are listed as excellent. Un- der the head of wives of salesmen, merchants, carpenters, traveling salesmen and musicians, the showing is invariably 100 per cent. Girls Also Make Good. Like the boys, many of the girls have risen to high positions both as wives and in the trades and profes- sions. One is the wife of a banker, another the wife of a publisher, sti!l another a school superintendent’s wife, and a fourth the wife of a prom- inent attorney. Because of a limited field the un- married girles are not as widely dis- tributed in the matter of trades and ‘/,'[ profess. Oy, every case rY Yy th ~ boys, but in nearly ~t work taken up em is tu .I.’ dit and that of the school. o ~ girls, an early graduate of . Tois a postmistress, two are lis. @ ssters of charity, three are mill. /s, one is an institution matron, fourteen are office clerks, forty-three are teachers in the public schools, and twenty-four are telephone operators. In the line of housework in city homes, 101 are registered with only twenty per cent of the whole recorded as doing poor- ly. A better showing is made in county domestic service where 159 (Continued on last page.) SECURITY MAKES ADVANCE Demonstrates Enterprise and Desire for Greater Efficiency by Inaugur- ating -Statement System. IN USE AFTER FEBRUARY Showing a spirit of enterprise and a desire for greater efficiency, the Security State bank of this city has inaugurated what is known as the statement system, being the first Be- midji financial institution to do su. According to H. C. Baer, cashier of the bank, the statement system will make the the large amount of bookkeeping made necessary by each day’s business less difficult and will be a big advantage in securing ac curacy and saving time. At a large cost the bank has in- stalled a Burroughs ledger-posting machine of the latest model, capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and shifting, in fact doing all bookkeeping work necessary mech- anically. Under the new system at the first of every month each customer of the bank will, by calling at the bank, be presented with a statement of his ac- count for the previous month, to- gether with his cancelled checks. No pass book need he left at the bank for balance. The working of the new plan, as explained by Mr. Baer, is simple. A large loose-leaf ledger is used, the sheets bearing a customer’s accourt being removed and placed in the car- rier of the machine. The deposits and checks are listed in their respee- tive columns and registered, the car- EDITOR FINED ON CONTEMPTCHARGE Toledo News-Bee Must Pay $7,500 and Editor Cochran $200 Because of Reference to Pending Case. TAKE CASE TO SUPREME COURT Paper Had Used Cartoons and News Stories in Citizens’ Fight Against Granting Street Car Franchise. Toledo, Jan. 23.—Judge Kil- lits this afternoon fined the News-Bee $7,600 and Editor Cochran $200 on account of com- ments made in reference to Kil- lit’s handling of the street car. fare case. The paper was held to be in contempt for printing cartoons, news or editorials rela- tive to the pending case. Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 23.—Whether a newspaper is in contempt of court for publication of cartoons, news items and editorials relative to a pending case, is the interesting ques- tion to be decided here today by Fed- eral Judge John M. Killits. N. J. Cochran, editor of the Toledo News- Bee, is cited for contempt. Bee, are cited for contempt. If the ruling should prove ad- verse, counsel for the editors an- nounced that the case Immediately will be appealed to the United States supreme court. The contempt proceedings arose out of the citizens’ fight, aided by the News-Bee, to preventing the grant- ing of a street railway franchise. The struggle has lasted since 1903. Sev- eral times petitions-in-boots were necessary to prevent machine coun- cils from passing a franchise over the veto of the mayor. Early in September, 1914, the com- pany pressed in United States court for an injunction to restrain the_city from enforcing the three-cent fare ordinance which had taken effect:in the previous March. Under that or- | dinance the company was refusing three-cent fare, but was carrying free those who refused to pay more. Modified Summary. The local Socialists passed resolu- tions decrying interference by the riage shifting from one item to an- other automatically. - Each day’s balance is carried for- ward on an account, the new deposits and checks registered and the new balance secured. If by chance the customer‘s checks are more than his balance of the day before, his ac- count will be overdrawn. This be- ing the case the carriage will shift the ledger sheet to the overdrawn column where a red 0. D. will be re- corded. Following this proceedure the sheet is returned to the ledger and the per- formance repeated until each custom- er’s account has been balanced. Then the same individual balance is made in the statement file and if the totals balance with the ledger the book- keeping has been accurately complet- ed, and the grand total is ready to be carried to the bank’s general led- ger, the checking system being as complete as possible. A customer’s statement is complete at the close of each day’s business. ‘While the system is being placed in operation now, the first state- ments to be issued will be those of February and will be ready for banx customers March 1. The new system is installed at a cost of nearly $1,000. MANY IN ANNUAL RUN. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 23.—A hundred amateur sprinters were en- tered for the annual cross-country run today at Hemming Park. Mer- chants offered cups and prizes. Railroad Officials Here. C. T. Peterson and J. A. Chandler, traveling passenger agents of the Chicago North-Western and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads, re- spectively, spent yesterday-in Be- midji. Chandler left this morning for Walker and Peterson for Interna- tional Falls. Bakers in Rotterdam have started to make bread composed of equal parts of flour and potato. They like court. The News-Bee published a modified summary of those. Business Agent John Quinlivan, of the Central Labor union, criticised the court before that body and was summoned for contempt. The News- Bee published his statement as set forth in the allegation against him. The News-Bee and its managing editor were then summoned for con- tempt. Among the additional alle- gations, were that the News-Bee had printed an account of a great public mass meeting at which the principle of refusing to pay more than three cents fare was discussed. It was also alleged that for eleven years, or nine years previous to the accession of Judge John M. Killits to the Federal bench, the News-Bee had been con- ducting a publicity campaign of news items, cartoons and editorial comment of a kind calculated to obstruct jus- tice when the suit came into the Fed- eral court and that after the case came into the Federal court contin- ued this line of policy. An editorial was cited in which Editor N. D. Cochran referred to the fact that “a judge is a two-legged human being.” Policy Set Forth. After the managing editor had been summoned, Editor Cochran him- self wrote an editorial in which he set forth that the News-Bee had no intention of censoring the courts or of obstructing justice, but that there was no intention, either that any court should edit the News-Bee. He set forth the policy of the paper in the street car controversy. Within a few hours he was sum- | moned to appear for contempt. Judge Killits then ordered a new informa- tion making Cochran and the News- Bee the respondents. He decided to hear the case himself and secured former U. S. Judge F. L. Day of Cleveland, as “‘a friend of the court,” to assist United States District At- torney U. G. Denman in the prose- cution. No jury can be demanded in cases of this kind. Cochran and ‘the News-Bee were it. SCOOP furih_ (Continued on last page.) " Dafective EEREEE RS S KKK KKK ‘Walker, Minn., Jan. 23.— Bob Ross, who was reported in the press to‘have lost his hands and feet. by "having them frozen by taking refuge in a tree from a pack of wolves, showed up in town this week and was very much surprised to find out what a furore he had created in the daily papers. He states’ that he hasn’t seen & wolf for some time, let alone being treed by them. =~ Rk ok ok ok ok ok k ok ok ok ko ok ok ok ok kK *E AKX KA A KT AR A hd* Ak XEERHRHRIE KKK KKK T0 PREVENT ROUMANIA FROM ENTERING WAR 7 Rome, Jan. 23.—@erman and Aus- trian diplomats are {oday 'desperately endeavoring to preyent Roumania from entering the' War. Bucharest dispatches say Ferdifiand’s adyisory activity is in preparjtion ‘for an in- vasion upon Transylvania. Public buildings at Roumaifia are being transformed into hospitals and war postage stamps have’been placed in circulation in preparation for war. KRR KKK R RKEEK KK KK * SUNDAY IN THE;CHURCHES * KRR KRR KK KK Episcopdl, Holy Communion at 8 a. m. Sun- day school at 10 a. m. - Regular Sun- day morning prayer and sermon at 11 a. m. Archdeacon Parshall. Swedish Lutlieran. Sunday school at}12. There will be no other services on account of the pastor’s absence.: J. H. Randahl, pastor. | Catholic. Low mass at 8 a; m. High mass at 10 a. m. Sunday school and bene- diction at 1 and 2 p. m. Vespers at 7:30 p. m. Father J. J. T. Philippe. Christian Science. Christian Science’services will be held at the Brinkman theater Sun- day morning at 11 o’clock. . Wednes- day evening testimbi’flal meeting will be held at 8 o’clock;at 520 Beltrami avenue, ; First Scandinavian Lutheran. Services in the Norwegian language Sunday morning at 10:30. English services in the evening at 8. Sun- day school at 12. All are cordially invited to attend. Confirmation class meets every Friday at 4 p. m. Os- mund Johnson, pastpr. —_— Methodist. Morning worship at 10:45. Sun- day school at 12. Jr. league at 3:30. Epworth league at 6:30. Evening service at 7:30. There will be spe- cial music at both services. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8. All are cordially invited fo attend. C. ‘W. Gilman, pastor. Presbyterian. Tomorrow our Sunday school will meet at 10. Morning worship and sermon at 11. Young people’s prayer meeting at 7. Evening worship and sermon at 8. Mid-week service for prayer and bible study on Thursday evening at 8. The public is cor- dially invited to all these services. Strangers and visitors to our city will find a welcome here. S. E. P. ‘White, pastor. Baptist. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morn- ing worship, 11 a. m. Sermon, “The Tribulation and Translation.” Se- nior B. Y. P. U, 6:30 p. m. Topie, “Favorite Characters From the Bible.” Psalms 105:46; Heb. 11. Gospel service, 7:30 p. m. Special music. Morning, “His Love for Me,” by Fred H. Byshe, chorus choir. Ev- ening, solo, “He Will Hide Me,” by E. 0. Excell, Mrs. Alvord. Anthem, “Forward,” by Gabriel, chorus choir. A cordial welcome is extended to everyone to attend the services of the church. The Baptist Sunday school gave a social Saturday afternoon un- der the supervision of Miss Sibyl Benner, which was very much enjoy- ed by all who attended and was also Why Pick On The General? Paace DARNELL REFUSED | ' MARRIAGE LICENSE Hennepin Clerk of . Court Refuses Wedding Permit to Much Married Minister Because of Divorce. LEAVES FOR WATERTOWN, S. D. Wished to Wed Ruth Soper, of Owa- tonna, the Mother of His Five- Months Old Baby. St. Paul, Jan. 23.—When Rev. James Morrison Darnell, alleged much married minister, appeared be- fore the clerk of court at the Henne- pin county court house today and asked for a license to -marry Ruth Soper of Owatonna, the permit was refused on account of the state law which forbids the marriage of anyone ‘who has been divorced less than six months. Called at State House. Darnell called at the state capitol today and asked for a letter of in- troduction to the Minneapolis clerk of court, the request being granted by the:governor’s secretary. He said that he wanted to wed the girl because of the publicity which has been given the case, although it would be duplicating his marriage to her which took place at Hammond, Indiana. Left for Watertown. Darnell, accompanied by his wife, Ruth Soper Darnell, their five months’ old baby, the girl’s mother and his father, left Minneapolis for Water- town, South Dakota, this morning. DEFALCATION OF MANY THOUSANDS DISCOVERED Santa Domingo, Jan. 23.—Defalca-] tion of many thousands of dollais were discovered here this morning. Funds were to have been expended under supervision of the United States government, trustee for the Dominion Government. No further details were obtainable. GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP SUNK BY BRITISH CRUISER London, Jan. 23.——Admiralty this afternoon announced that a British battleship, the name not being given, had sunk a German supply ship in Austrian waters on January 6. No further details were given out with the exception that the crew was im- prisoned. TO CONSIDER CONTESTS. St. Paul, Jan. 23.—It is probable that the legislature will on next Tuesday consider the several election contests which have been brought forth. One of the contests is against Sudheimer by C. P. Montgomery, and the other is Frank Dunning against T. H. Girling of Robbinsdale. MINNESOTA LAND RIGHT FOR BELGIAN FARMER St. Paul, Jan. 23.—Phillipine Ar- tois, the well known Belgian actress, today stated that there will soon be thousands of Belgians living in Min- nesota. She said that the soil is adapted to the truck farming of the Belgians, which is their specialty. It is claimed here that J. L. Washburn, of Duluth, will give 500 acres for the cause. a success financially. At Sunday school next Sunday an interesting and instructive paper will be read on the subject, “The Sunday School.” A sacred musicale will be given in the church Sunday evening, January 31, under the direction of Mrs. Al- vord. The program will be an- nounced next week. One hundred new hymn books have been purchased for the church. I. D. Alvord, pas- tor, Water from King Solomon’s sealed fountain is now piped through the streets of Jerusalem. - FARMERS HAVE MEETING' Better Farming - Club. -Entertains - Eckles Organization. At the high school building today, the Better Farming club of Graut Valley entertained tlie Eckles Farm- ers’ club. The meeting was the first of a series which is to be held in or- der that the farmers of the various clubs may become better acquainted and more united in their efforts. Be- cause of the cold weather the meet- ing was not as well attended as had been expected. PLAY STUDENTS TONIGHT Clever Bemidji High School Five Will Meet Grand Forks Independents —After State Championship. “BIG BEMIDG” WINS, _53 TO 10 With “Big Bemidg” playing a strong offensive game, the Grand Forks Independepts were completely outclassed in the basketball game of last night, again being defeated by a wide margin, the score being 53 to 10. The entire Bemidji team played good basketball and fast teamwork featured throughout the entire con- test. Brandon scored leven times, and Bestul and Miller six each, while Peck counted six points. Tonight the Independents will play Bemidji’s high school team and fans of the city should be treated to some classy basketball. The student team is after the state championship and has practically worked its way _|to a place at the Carleton tourna- ment. It is expected that a large attend- ance will turn out to witness the high school perform.. The game will gtart at 8:15. The score: Bemidji Grand Forks Brandon . .rf.......... Roller Miller . Carter Peck ... Umlauf Jacobson and Welch and Trafton . Wells Bestul .. . Hall 11, Miller 6, Peck 3, Carter 1, Um- lauf 1, Hall 1, Wells 1. Free throws, Umlauf 1, Carter 1, Brandon 1. Re- feree, McCarthy of Grand Forks; um- pire, Stanton, scorer, Ed Ripple. AIRCRAFT ENGAGE IN BATTLE HIGH IN AIR Berlin, Jan. 23.—Hostile aviato:ss bombarded Ghent and Zeebrugee to- day, but little damage being done. German airmen pursued the enemy, a rifle action taking place at a great height, but they escaped. It is re- ported here that French infantry at- tacks at Souvain and Perthes have been repulsed. French left trenches and dashed toward the Germans, the fire of the latter breaking the attack. DAVIS AND TOWNSEND AT PEWTER PLATTER CLUB Norfolk, Va., Jan. 23.—Solicitor General Davis, of the department of justice, and Senator Townsend of Michigan, will be the guests of honor and principal speakers tonight at the annual banquet of the “Pewter Plat- ter Club,” ‘Norfolk’s commercial or- ganization. AIRCRAFT FOUNDERED. Rotterdam, Jan. 23.—According to a report Inade by a fisherman hers today an airship, believed to be that of the Germans, has been foundered in the North Sea. It was believed Lo have on its return from the English coast. THAW TO CONCORD. - Manchester, N. H., Jan. 23.— Harry Thaw left today for Concore, where the last steps will be taken be- fore his return to New York. ATTACK BRITISH HEADQUARTERS London, Jan. 23.—German aviators made a daring attempt yesterday to bomb the British field headquarters at Dunkirk. Several were killed and a few wounded. By "HOP" BEMIDJI MILLS T0 OPERATE FOR [2 MORE YEARS Lumber Manufacturing Establish- ments of This City Will Be Among Last of State to Stop Sawing. ENORMOUS OUTPUT SINCE 1870 1899 Was Banner. Year—Prosperous Farms Now in - Vicinity = Once Thought Valuable for Trees Only Minnesota’s great pine forests have supplied logs scaling 34,800,- 000,000 feet since 1870, according to a statement prepared by C. E. Sin- clair, state surveyor general of logs and lumber for the second, or Min- neapolis district. Mr. Sinclair's es- timate is based on the’ records of his office from 1870 to 1914, covering the upper - Mississippi .valley and all logs cut and scaled as far down as the St. Paul boom. While it has been understood here that the Shevlin interests would con- tinue to operate their two large mills here at least twelve years, the figures of Sinclair practically assure that such will be the case, the company having sufficient timber holdings. Still ‘Good Timber Left. In spite of this tremendous drain on the state’s timber resources, there is still virgin timber in this north- ern district to keep big mills run- ning up here for 12 to 15 years, Mr. Sinclair said. While actual sawing at Minneapolis is small now and soon will be wound up completely, that city is the headquarters for the lum- ber industry of the whole northwest, and its wholesale concerns handle more lumber now than. when the city’s mills were sawing at their top capacity in the season of 1899, Three Concerns in Control. Pine left in Minnesota is largely in the hands of three big interesis. The Shevlin-Carpenter-Clarke con- cerns, which have their headquar- ters in Minneapolis, have mills in this city and Frazee which ‘will gper- ate 12 to 15 years longer. Their mill at Cass Lake will shut down this coming season. So will the T, B. Walker mill at. Akeley, which wil end the Walker activity in Minnesola. Can Run 15 Years Longer. The International Lumber com- pany, the Backus-Brooks interests, have big mills at International Falls and Spooner, which will operate 15 years or more. The Weyerhaeuser mills at Virginia and Cloquet will run about 15 years, the one at Little Falls five or six years and two mills at Minneapolis will run two or three years on logs in the river. Then they will begin clearing the river of sunken logs which almost floor it from Minneapolis to Brainerd, and sawing those logs. 16,600,000,000 From One District. Including logs rafted at St. Paul for mills down the river as far as Hannibal, Mo., the Minneapolis dis- trict since 1870 has an output of 16,- 600,000,000 feet. Beginning in 1870, the first decade shows an annual log output for the district averaging 160,000,000 feet. In the ten yeats from 1880 to 1890, it rose to 300,000,000 feet a year, and then came the apex of Minnesota’s pine production, from 1890 to 1904. Averaged 600,000,000 a Year. In those 14 years the Minneapolis district averaged 600,000,000 feet a year, 1899 being the banner year, with 770,000,000 feet. For the six years following, to 1910, it dropped to 400,000,000 feet a year, and since 1910 it has averaged 300,000,000 feet and is decreasing each year. Imr that 44-year period, Mr. Sinclair estimates the Duluth and the Still- water districts together cut about the same total as Minneapolis. Duluth Still Heavy Producer. Duluth district, with big mills at Cloquet and Virginia, is still a heavy producer, but the Stillwater district is about through. The Crookston district has been abolished since the mills at Crookston, Ada, St. Hilaire, East Grand Forks and Thief River Falls shut down. This district, it is estimated, produced in all 1,600,000 feet of logs. 5 Last Cutting for Minneapolis. The last logs to be cut.in the woods for Minneapolis are being felled this winter and will go into the upper reach of the Mississippl this mnext summer and fall. The local cut last year was 68,000,000 feet. The last big timber tract to go on the market.is in the Red Lake Indian reservation, where it is estimated 200,000,000 feet of pine is yet to he sold and logged out. Now Prosperous Farms. . The-timber area of Minnesota once extended to the very doors of Min- ‘| neapolis. “The Rum river country was a big producer. Vast tracts cut over 20 to 30 years ago are now pros- perous farming country, *including “(Continuea on last page).